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| Managed care and the goals of medicine | | Author(s) | Daniel Callahan |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 3, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 385-388 |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Health services ; Commercial care ; Grant allocation ; Social ethics ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The goals of medicine encompass the relief of pain and suffering, the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, the forestalling of death and the promoting of a peaceful death, and the cure of disease when possible and the care of those who cannot be cured. Managed care, as a system of integrated healthcare delivery designed to control costs, is not, in principle, incompatible with the goals of medicine; but in practice, it may well be, depending on whether profit is sought, whether the integrity of physicians' medical judgement is protected, and whether government regulations control managed care practices to prevent abuse and enhance the quality of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980821014 A |
| Classmark | LK: L: PI: QCG: TQ: 7T |
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